This book is an exploration of the every day lives of seven young, self-identified lesbian women in Cape Town and their experiences of social space. This research was prompted by the increase in hate crimes against homosexual individuals that occurred in various cities in South Africa, including Cape Town....

Today in urban education, schools are forced to keep up and compete with students nationally with high-stake testing. Standardized tests are often bias in nature and often do not measure the true ability of a student. Conventional testing also distorts educational goals....

This hilarious memoir of a wannabe ocean going sailor and captain touches all bases of what can and does go wrong with yachts at sea! In a fit of madness Author Paul Stevens bought a 45 foot 15 ton ocean yacht to go cruising round the world....

New challenges and a more competitive market have forced oil producers to search for new technologies in order to remain competitive, whether a producer from the latest technologies is able to dispose of its oil in the international market, or profit from the oil price fluctuations in the commodity market....

You In The World is a suite of poems addressed to the reader. They cover topics from the individual to culture; the self and dreams; death, and the past and present. The \"You\" of You In The World is both personal and universal. The poems pose questions that are both timeless and contemporary....

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, UML 2003, held in San Francisco, CA, USA in October 2003....

Using UMLis designed to help any developer master effective software design with UML. This new edition has been fully revised to reflect UML 1.3.Experienced modeling language instructors Perdita Stevens and Rob Pooley focus on superior design......